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The following are lists of writers:
Lists by name
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z
Lists by type of writing or genre
- Folkloristics
- Bestselling fiction authors
- Biographers
- Buddhist authors
- Business writers
- Catholic authors
- Children's literature authors
- Crime writers
- Detective fiction authors
- Dramatists
- Early-modern women playwrights (UK)
- Early-modern women poets (UK)
- Essayists
- Fantasy authors
- Historians
- Historical novelists
- Horror fiction authors
- Humorists
- Illustrators
- Manga artists
- Mystery writers
- New technologies writers
- Non-fiction authors
- Novelists
- Occult writers
- Playwrights
- Poets
- Political authors
- Role-playing game writers
- Romantic novelists
- Science fiction authors
- Short story authors
- Software authors (i.e., designers/programmers)
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Lists by nationality, race, origin or gender
- African American writers
- African writers or by country
- Albanian writers
- Algerian writers
- Arab American writers
- Armenian authors
- Asian American writers
- Assyrian writers
- Australian authors
- Bangladeshi writers
- Beninese writers
- Biographical dictionaries of women writers
- Brazilian writers
- Canadian writers
- Croatian authors
- Cuban American writers
- Early-modern women playwrights (UK)
- Early-modern women poets (UK)
- English writers
- Female detective/mystery writers
- Female Nobel laureates
- Female poets
- Georgian writers
- Greek writers
- Hungarian writers
- Icelandic writers
- Indian writers
- Iranian writers
- Italian writers
- Jewish American writers
- Kurdish writers
- LGBT writers
- Mexican writers
- Mexican American writers
- Moroccan writers
- Norwegian writers
- Novelists by nationality
- American novelists
- Pakistani writers
- Peruvian writers
- Philippine writers
- Playwrights by nationality and date of birth
- Polish writers
- Portuguese writers
- Puerto Rican writers
- Romanian writers
- Russian authors
- Scottish writers
- List of Serbian writers
- Slovak authors
- Slovenian writers
- Spanish writers
- Taiwanese authors
- Women comics writers and artists
- Women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
- Women rhetoricians
- Women writers
- List of Native American writers
- Writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
- Irish Writers
- Uruguayan authors
- Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
- Women science fiction authors
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Lists by language (non-English)
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